Speocarcinus

Speocarcinus is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing six extant species, one fossil species from the Late Miocene, one fossil species from the Eocene (Lutetian) and one fossil species from the Early Eocene (Ypresian):

  • Speocarcinus carolinensis Stimpson, 1859
  • Speocarcinus granulimanus Rathbun, 1894
  • Speocarcinus lobatus Guinot, 1969
  • Speocarcinus meloi D'Incao & Gomes da Silva, 1992
  • Speocarcinus monotuberculatus Falder & Rabalais, 1986
  • Speocarcinus spinicarpus Guinot, 1969
  • Speocarcinus berglundi Tucker et al., 1994
  • Speocarcinus tuberculatus (Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi & Zarantonello, 2005); originally described as a species of Paraxanthosia, transferred to the genus Speocarcinus by Beschin et al. (2012)
  • Speocarcinus latus Beschin et al., 2016

Speocarcinus
Temporal range:
Speocarcinus caroliensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Xanthidae
Subfamily: Speocarcininae
Števčić, 2005
Genus: Speocarcinus
Stimpson, 1859
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